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Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
Peter Pan has two main settings. The first is the Darling home in the borough of Bloomsbury in London, England. The Darling parents keep an orderly household in order to give structure to their children's lives; the narrator says that "Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours." The narrator also refers to their home as "No. 14" and calls it a "desolate home" from which the characters take "heartless flight." Generally speaking, the house seems like a warm enough place, with two stable parents and a humorous gentle dog-nurse Nana, but it pales in comparison to the grand adventures that await the Darling children in Neverland.
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